Any brook trout taken today along the south shore are stocked fish which do not reproduce. Preferring clear, cool water of around 40-55 degrees, it is near impossible to have stocked fish holdover from year to year since few of the bodies of water here on the south shore can keep that environment throughout the year.
The city's population is 90.9% native born and 9.1% foreign born. Of the city's population 48.6% are men and 51.4% are females. The races making up the largest parts of the population are: White [85.6%], Hispanic [9.5%] and Two or more races [4.2%]. The population of Arlington, WA is 17,926. 55.0% of the city's population is married. The other 45.0% are single. The city's population is 19.5% college educated and 89.3% have a high school diploma or a GED.
Within its total area of 71,299 square miles, there is an average of 101.2 people for every square mile of Washington State territory. Seattle is the largest city in the state with a population of 684,451, with a density of 7,962 people per square mile. The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area has a population of 3.73 million, however, and encompasses nearby cities like Kent, Tacoma, Bellevue and Everett.